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confide
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A Thousand Acres
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- "Listen to this," said Jess, and he told about confiding to an American woman in a Vancouver saloon that he was evading the draft.†
p. 78.1confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- But that was a bad idea, confiding in someone.†
p. 119.4
- After you've confided long enough in someone, he or she assumes the antagonism you might have just been trying out.†
p. 119.5 *confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I thought at once of Linda and Pammy, the way they sometimes confided in me instead of in their mother, the way I liked to give them things, or take them places that Rose wouldn't have approved of if she'd known.†
p. 151.2
- Harold leaned toward me and confided, "I gotta say, Ginny, that everything about that boy gets me these days.†
p. 159.4
- Confiding in him might be hard, actually.†
p. 209.5confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
Definitions:
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(1)
(confide) to place trust (in someone) by talking about private things or telling secrets
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, confide can mean to give trust to someone while giving them something important--such as a responsibility or a valuable item. For example, "I confided the job to her care."